"Humanity is entering a new orbit. The old powers are declining. They are the "past" and we are the "future". I repeat…"

"They found uranium of Pakistani origin in the centrifuges. It was of Pakistani origin. That makes me nervous."

"When, o Wisdom (Mazda), will the bulls of the days come?"

"...the light of the sun and the shining bull of the midday."

"From the Greek writers we get some idea of Persian education; but it applies only to the nobility, and there was no p…"

"Her lithe figure shimmered ivory beneath the moon."

"Before him, swaying like a sapling in the wind, stood a woman. Her body was like ivory to his dazed gaze, and save fo…"

"It is the colour of a bleached skull, his flesh; and the long hair which flows below his shoulders is milk-white."

"Her bosom gleams, her neck is marbly bright, And white as silvery Thetis’ are her toes:"

"A wayle whyt ase whalles bon; ... ('A beauty white as whale's bone')"